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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Order Out of Chaos: The Global Elites Plan for a “Middle Eastern Union”

Guest Post by Steven MacMillan

The Middle East has been engulfed in a state of chaos for decades now,
with the region becoming increasingly unstable in recent years largely
due to Western-sponsored proxy wars. The current map of the Middle East
was created in 1916 through the surreptitious Sykes-Picot agreement,
a deal which divided the Ottoman-ruled territories of Syria, Iraq,
Lebanon and Palestine, into areas controlled by either Britain or
France. Today the chaos we see in the Middle East is the creation of
Anglo-American-Israeli power, which is attempting to redraw the map to
meet their present strategic and imperial objectives.

Islamic State: A Creation of US Intelligence

The Islamic State (IS) has hit the headlines in recent months due to
their latest terror campaign in Iraq, which has led to US airstrikes in
the North of the country. What has been omitted from mainstream circles
though is the intimate relationship between US intelligence agencies and
IS, as they have trained, armed and funded the group for years.

Back in 2012, World Net Daily received leaks by Jordanian officials who reported that the US military was training ISIL
(as it was then known) in Jordan, before being deployed into Syria to
fight against Bashar al-Assad. Francis Boyle, a Law professor at the
University of Illinois, has described IS as a “covert US intelligence operation” whose objective is to “destroy Iraq as a state”.

The strategy in the Middle East is the creation of a perpetual condition of instability and a policy of “constructive chaos”,
where nation states are to be destroyed so that the map of the Middle
East can be redrawn. IS provided the pretext to intervene in Iraq once
again, with the intervention ensuring the oil fields in Erbil
are safely in the hands of multi-national corporations – as opposed to
chaotic and dysfunctional mercenaries – as well as providing the
justification for the US, Britain and France
to “bolster” the Kurds in the North of the country, which furthers the
agenda of destroying “Iraq as a state”. As the President of the Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Former Director of Policy Planning at the
State Department, Richard Hass, wrote in an Op Ed for Project Syndicate last month:

It is time to recognize the inevitability of Iraq’s break-up (the
country is now more a vehicle for Iran’s influence than a bulwark
against it) and bolster an independent Kurdistan within Iraq’s former
borders.

As I reported in June,
the policy in Iraq is to split the country into 3 separate religious
and ethnic mini-states: a Sunni Iraq to the West, an Arab Shia State in
the East and a Free Kurdistan in the North. The objective of dividing
Iraq into 3 has been discussed in neo-imperial policy circles since as
far back as 1982, when Israeli journalist – who also had close
connections to the Foreign Ministry in Israel – Oded Yinon, wrote an
article which was published in a journal of the World Zionist
Organisation, titled: “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties”.
Yinon discusses the plan for a Greater Israel and pinpoints Iraq in
particular as the major obstacle in the Middle East which threatens
Israel’s expansion:

Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is
guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even
more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria.
In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat
to Israel (p.12)……….The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into
ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s
primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the
dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary
short term target. (p.11.)

Yinon continues:

In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in
Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will
exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and
Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish
north. (p.12)

Israel is merely an extension of Anglo-American power and has been since
its creation in 1948, so any expansion of Israeli territory is
synonymous with an increase in Anglo-American hegemony in the region.
Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919
and author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration – which declared British
support for the creation of a Jewish state (Israel) in Palestine – was
also a member of the Milner Group, according to CFR historian Carroll
Quigley in his book the Anglo-American Establishment (p.311). The
Milner Group was the precursor to the Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA) or Chatham House; the British arm of the CFR, with both
organisations sharing the collective objective of creating an
Anglo-American global empire.

The Plan for a “Middle Eastern Union”

After funding and being directly responsible for much of the chaos and
instability that has been unleashed in the Middle East, western think
tank strategists are proposing a centralised, sovereignty-usurping union
as the solution to the problem they have created, in a classic
deployment of the order out of chaos doctrine. As The New American
reported last month, Ed Husain, an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle
Eastern Studies at the CFR, compared today’s Middle East to Europe
before the EU was created, and he asserted that the only solution to the
ongoing violence is the creation of a “Middle Eastern Union”. This sentiment was echoed by Hass, who compared the Middle East of today to 17th century Europe, in his article “The New Thirty Years War”. Hass proclaims that the future will likely be as turbulent unless a “new local order” emerges:

For now and for the foreseeable future – until a new local order emerges
or exhaustion sets in – the Middle East will be less a problem to be
solved than a condition to be managed.

The idea of an EU-style governing body over the Middle East is not a new concept. In 2008, the Iraqi government called for an EU-style trading bloc in the Middle East
that would encompass Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Iraq,
Turkey and later perhaps the Gulf states, in an address to the US think
tank the Institute of Peace. The President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, was
in attendance at the second meeting in 2011 along with Egemen Bağış,
the ‘Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator’ at the time, who gave
a speech where he described the EU as the model for the Middle East:

We all know that the EU emerged as the most successful peace and
development project of the history after a bloody war. Today, we have
the very same expectations for the Middle East.

Whether a “Middle Eastern Union” will be created is difficult to
determine at this point in history, but there is no question that the
process of redrawing the map of the Middle East is well under way.